The Sun. — London, England, 1809-10-02 00:00:00

t om= MAILS. ARILLVED-.-1 Dublin, I Waterford. Duz—z Gottenburgh •i Lisbon, I Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TvVsLVE O'CLOCK. CCiISOIS - - - • ail Dmnium -••- 1 pr. THE SUN. SOLLMQUIS DICIRE TALSUX ADDiAY ? L 0 N D 0 N, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1809. We stated on Saturday that we had reason to be lieve that the vacant Seats in the Cabinet would bei filled up before the next Levee, and the event has jilstified our statement. Mr. PERCEVAL succeeds the Duke of Po R TLAND as First Lord of the Treasury, and of course retains his office of Chancellor of the Exchequer; Mr. R. DuNDAS resigns the Secretaysl)ip of Ireland, and succeeds Lord CASTLEREAG Li as Secre tary of State for War and Colonies, Lord HARROWBY has been mentioned as thesuccessor to Mr. CANNING, but no definitive arrangement has, we believe, yet taken place. - We have no doubt that by to-morrow we shall be enabled to communicate to our Readers authentic information upon the. subjea. Lord W. BENTINCK succeeds Lord. G. L. GOWER as Secretary at War, and we are strongly inclinA to hope that Mr. WELLESLEY POLE Will succeed to the vacant Secretaryship of Ireland, an Office for which he ks'in every point of view sthemineutly qualified. We have hitherto thought it our duty, and shall persevere in the same condut% w reftain from any communications respe&ing Ministerial changes, till we could speak from authority, and our Readers may confidently rely upon having the first in formation upon all subsuent . arrangements that may take place. The friends of Lord GREY appear to be sensible of the impropriety of his condutit. It 'is imputed to misapprehension of the nature of Mr. PERCEVAL'S communication. It was not, they say, distinaly stated to be His MAJESTY'S command, that Lord GREY should repair to London I It is not denied to have been by ELS MAJESTY'S command, that Lord GREY and Lord GRENVILLE were called upon to as sist in the formation. of "an extended and combined Administration !" It is not denied to have been by His MAJESTY'S command that they were de sired to co-operatein this work with Mr. PERCE VAL and Lord LIVERPOOL, who were necessari ly at the seat of Government But as the words " I have His Majesty's commands to desire that for this purpose yon will immediately come to Londoti," that desire was understood as the unauthorised addition of Mr. PERCEVAL ; and Nr. PERCEVAL is accused of " special pleading," and studied nmbiguity, in not repeating the Royal name in every sentence of his Letter. We do hope and trust that there was neither duplicity in the one party nor wilful inisconstruetion in the other, but we confidently contend that it would be much more easy to support, in this instance, the latter charge against Lord GREY, titan the former against-Mr, PERCEVAL. Lord GRENVILLE did not hesitate; and in what ever light we view his conduCt, we must prefer it to that of his friend. If the meaning of the Letter was obvious, how came Lord GREY to misconceive it ? If there was really an ambiguity, what induCed L( rd Lord GRENvrt,Lt; to a6l upon the construction most personally inconvenient ? We believe that we can answer this—Lord GREN v,ILLE ve.whirought up in the SchOol of Mr. PITT, whose sincere and well-grounded attachment to the Constitution never suffered him for one moment to depart, even in appearance, from the respell which he considered as an essential prerogative of the Sovereign. Lord GREY bad, unfortunately, com menced his political career under a man who, was, as oral)! tunately for his country as for himself, driven by disappointment and envy to a frequent disregard of one branch of the Government ; and who adopted another Sovereign, by whom he was more caressed and flattered, at t!)e expence of to whom his allegiar ce was due. . . But enough of personalities'; the style of Mr. VEaCEVAL ' i letter has not, been More misrepresented ;han the nature of the overture whiCh he was autho riz .d to make. Mr. PERCEVAL has been repre sented as having asked Lords GREY and GRENVILLE to form an accession to the existing Administration, to desert their o*n parties and principles, and to form a part of the Ministry now is power. We are anxious to give to this statement an unqualified contradiation ; we are informed that the Ministers were prepared to offer terms,.which must have satisfied the most fas tidious adherent of opposition. As-the Administra- . Coil was to have been entirely formed anew, we can rot of course say any thing of the contemplated ar pngement of offices, but we are told that the highest ; pzits would not ha‘;--, been reserved ; and ,we have ove.ry reason to,believe, that either in the number or the na:ure of the offices to be by their friends, LordsG#EY and GiEIsIVILLE would have had nearly as great skeight, as wh.e3, a;hler the banueri of Mr. Fox, they coalesced with the party of Lord 'SID- MOUTH The grounds upon which these liberal overturn s have. been rejeaed, have perhaps not as yet been so publicly stated as •to justify 'us in arguing upon any as the avowed grounds. It has been said, that the two Statesmen in clues.' tion have an objeaion to patch-work Administrations; that they remember, with apprehension, Mr. BURKE'S tesselated pavement, and will not venture to expose themselves to the same ridicule We have not heard that either of the Noble per sons have condescended, to urge this topic ; they must laugh at the ill-judged zeal of their followers who use it. To any man burn before 1804, the very names of GRENVILLE and GREY would be a sufficient answer. But there ,are some people who think it unclaiisical either to remember or to read modern history. Let such then be reminded of the only AdMiniStration which Lord GRENVILLE has himself formed. Is it not notorious that he made it his boast, to have included all parties in the State (although it is true he pettishly omitted that one, by which he had himself been fostered from his birth!!) ? In the Cabinet of 1806, there were certainly Jive parties, between no two of which had. there been within' the ten preceding years any thing approach-. ing to coincidence of sentiment. Mr. Fox, Lord GRENVILLE, Lord FITZWILLIAM, Lord Srnmotirn, and Mr. WINDHAN, who certainly must be consi dered as a Party in himself. The differences exist ing between these parties were political and per sonal. Upon the questions of Peace and War, Re form or Constitution, Emancipation or Aestriaion, there'was equal discordance and of all the political animosities which has been recorded since the reign of ANNE, there seemed none more - utterly irrecon cileable, than that borne against Lord SIDMOUTH. No violence of hostility, no decided variance of opi nion, ever seemed completely to make it impossible for two men to sit in the same. Cabinet, as the tone adopted in the opposition to Mr. .ADDINGTON. Yet, the Cabinet in which theSe parties sat united, is represented as the most efficient which ever ex isted, by those who decry the idea of a patch-work Cabinet, founded upon a compromise orOpinions ! We shall recur to this subject in a day or two. Last night we received some Seville and Cadiz Gazettes, and other Spanish Papers. I,t does not appear that the armies have made any movement of importance, but we are glad to tina that the Spa niards are adopting a species of warfare in• which they are much more likely to succeed against the French, than by oppr t py Meeting. them in the field . The plan to which we allude is that of attacking the French in detail, cutting off their provisions, and ha rassing the French in every.direaion. We are sorry to fiud that thv Vrcnch have re occupied St. Andero. 'e this morning received a sezies- of- Mokiteurs to the 20th, ult. . They contain no information whatever relative to the Negociations between France and Agstria, nor indeed • any intelligence of im portance. It appears froin the 'following Letter, which appeared in the Monitqur of the 4th, that 13UONAFAhTE is not satisfied with the defence made by the Governor of Flushing. The Leiter is from BUONAPARTE to. the Count DE HUNNEBURG, the Minister at War `` LIONS. TIIE COUNT DE HUNNEDUEG, OUR bill- NISTER AT WAli, " Accounts which are now before us, contain the following assertions ; that the Governor of Flushing did not obey thi: orders given to him W cut the dy4e in the island of Walch,eren, as soon as a superior force landed ; that he had surrendered the place NV IliC,ll we entrusted to his care, the enemy not hay-, ing passed the ditch, no practicable breach having been- made, and even while the enemy is 'trenches, were 150 toises from the place, and when he had 4,000 men under arms. Filially, that the place sur rendered at the first bombardment. If the s e state-, ments be correa, the Governor is guilty, and . it re- mains to be ascertained whether his conduct is to be attributed to treason or cowardice." The letter then proceeds to order a Council of In-. quiry to investigate the business, consisting of Count ABOVILLE, Count RAMPON, Vice-Admiral THEVE• NARD, and Count SENGLS First Inspettor . General of the Artillery, It is dated at the Imperial Camp, at Schonbrun, 7th September, 1809, and Signed NAPOLEON. We copied on Saturday from a respeaable . Morn ing Paper what the Editor terms a." correct ac count of the circumstances which preceded the lat e duel." We stated at the time that we believed it to be entirely unauthorised, though the press of other matter' did not allow us to point out the misstate meats which it contained. We cannot speak posi tively as to the alleged purport of Lord CASTLE.. ItRAGII'S .Letter, though we have many doubts of its accuracy; but we cannot avoid saying' that' the pre tended answer Of Mr.. CA N is etroneous in every. ] part. 'Ourleaders will do us the justice to recollea, that .nee stated in a former Paper that with whatever complaints the Letter of Lord CASTLEREAGH com menced, it ended with a peremptory demand, not of explanation, but' of satislanion. To so decisive a challenge what reply could a man of honour and spirit wake, but that he was most willing to give it ? And this we are well assured was the answer which Mr. CANNING returned, with the addition of three words, to say, that the_ lan guage of Lord CASTLEREAGH admitted of no other. If we can trust our authority, two lines comprised the whole of Mr. CANNING'S answer. He made no lamentations," complained of no " partiality," and certainly said not one word of his " motives," or of the " construdion so unjustly put upon them." We have said this merely to correa the mis-state ment of an article, written, as it appears to us, in the apiritsof fairness, and erring only from the want of ge nuine information. If it be necessary to recur to the subjeEt, our readers may rest in the assurance, that we shall not trifle with their feelings, nor mis lead their judgment, by pretending to information which we have not procured, or stating fads of which we are not really in possession. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Av- GUSTA and SOPHIA, accompanied by Lady THYNNE, General FITZROY, Colonel DEstutow, and Major. PRICE, rode to St. George's Chapel, and heard Di vine Service. Lord GRENVILLE was at Carlton-House as early as nine o'clock on Friday morning, and remained With the PRINCE for nearly two hours. 141 r. SHERI DAN had afterwards a very long audience of his Royal Highness; and in the course of the morning the PRINCE also say his Royal Arothers, the Dukes of CLARENCE and CUMBERLAND. The Wen, Capt.FitosEßY, and the Eleanor, Capt. OPBERC, are arrived at Hull, from Gottenburgh, in it days; sailed from thence sail, under convoy of the Charles armed ship.. The day they sailed from Gotten burgh, a fleet of near 200 sail ar, rived from the saltic, a gale of wind shortly after coming on, separated both fleets ; they can give no other account, but saw seyerat .straggling ships on their passage. A letter from Cadiz, of September 14, states the determination of the Junta not to resign tlje Buprpine authdrity. It states, that an extraordinary sitting was held to determine on the great question of the esta blishment of a Regency, and the dissolution *of their own power. The friends of the Regency were out voted, and cppsequently the Junta retains its rkupr macy. ' txtters from Walcheren, dated on Wednesday last, mention, that the enemy were ac . cuimdating iu Beveland, but had not undertaken any - measure of . offence agaitvit qur pyei.).arations for defen c e were prosecuted with activity, and ;he mortality amongst our troops had in some degree deceased. General FRAZER embarked at fortsmonth on day for Gibraltar, where he is appointed Second in Comn,aand. The number of French prisoners•in this country amounted last week to 106,000, and ;3- or ;000, more are expected in a few da3 s from Walcheren. We learo, with much pleasure, that a Merchant of the f;rst respc.q.'tability, w,tio arrived on Friday from Petersburgh, brings intelligence of a .consider, able change in thediSpositiOn of that Court towards v ran ce, ,and that even the Archdulie coNsTAtITINE had shewn a marked disrespeCt towards the thief leaders of the French fat ion (lit re. Some serious misunderstandings are said to have prevailed between the Persian Colleelor ache . Reve nues and the Vrench Merchants, kn. constquence of. t he former exacting a double duty on t heir therchan dize, contrary, as tiley assert, to the articles of treaty. The French presented, on this occasion, a remon strance to the Court of Persia, in terms not consider ed sufficiently respeaful, and which produced gn answer not likely to operate in the most conciliatory manner. It is not improbable that this affair may have influenced the Conn of persia in, giving so. fa vourable a reception to our Embassy. In consequence of the late unpleasant disputes among, the military in India, it has been thought proper to place the sons of the lateTt repo SULTAUN, and some of the most disatfeCted Sirdars, under cer tain restriCtions, to pievent their influencing the vublic ferment, • • SCINDEA, with that restlessness peculiar to his character, is prosecuting the siege of. Bhophaul, at the, twacl . ot: a considerable force. The Raj:th has strongly fortified himself in his Zenana, where he has' assembled' his family, and has declared his in tention, in the event.of the reduCtion of the fortress, of sting fire to the building, and perishing - in the ruins, rather than submit to hiS enemies. The following rOcial. document shew•s the great authority of France in matters relating to the com merce of Sweden (CIRCULAR) I " VISISINCBURCH, SEPT. I2.—The Minister for Foreign Affairs has the honour, in obedience to his Majesty's' most gracious coin:maid, to communicate the following intelli . •gunce:— " The Imperia/ - French Brigadier-General !Andras, Go vernor of Stralsund, has declared to the Ambassadors of his Royal Majesty, destined Eor the French Court, on their arri val at Stralsund, that thtdUgh the French General Liebert in Stettin, he has received 'orders from the. Prince Neufcha tel, in which he informs him, that the cohiniercial inter- course between Pomerania and Sweden is to be at an end, and•that the corinnunicatiims between the two countries is to regulated in the following.manner " That the passage of the packets between Stralsund and Ystadt, t ,- )r couriers and letters, shall alone remain. open ; and that the French Consuls in ie ports of the Baltic, nave, ac . cording to the statement of t;eneral Landras,'received similar orders. Royal Majesty's Charge des A fFaires, in Hamburgh has reported, under date of 25th of last month, that in conse. (pence of the intercession which the Senator Bourienne, lin - . perial Erench Minister - in the circle of Lower , Saxony,. had aken upon himself to make, with regar.? to the point, ' 4 . how fat the Swedish convoy which arrived oft Wismar, under the orders of Major Warlsteds, would be allowed to take eargOes on beard at - that place, and to clear out for Swedish ports." M. Bourienne had not-yet received any answer from Lis peria4 Majesty, but expecled it on the 27th or '2Bth bi last month, it his Mojesty's -orders could be imurdiattry dis ' patched," OF )TED STArES. BOOTON, AUG. 17.—We . stated in our last, that BUONAPARTE had manifested a disposition to relax in his outrageous condud towards the United Stateg. By letters from Paris to July 6, it is said that Ne, gociations for a Commercial Arrangement had com menced between Gen. , ARMSTRQNQ and Mr. liku-0 TERiVE, appointed in the absence of CHAMPANY. EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROM A GENTLEMAN IN HAA LIFAL TO HIS FRIEND kN THIS TOWN, L)ATIT AU" GUST 1. 7 Yesterday arrived here a sloop of war Of 19 guns, with a French frigate of 48 guns, her prize. She is one of those which escaped from Guadaloupe. a short time since, and has a valuable cargo of sugar, cocoa, and 1,200,d001b5. of cote orr board." The art of printing from stone continues to be pra6tised with great suceess in Germany. At Stut gardt a printing-office had been established for the, more extensive application of. this invention. The engraving of music is the chief branch to which it is. applied. Printer, at Basle, has lately direaed his attew. tion to improvements in the principle of stereo-. type, by simplifying the plate;, and he has so far succeeded, as to have copied a series of medals irk this way. It is said that M. DEGEN, a Watchmaker at Vienna, has invented a machine, by which a person may rise into the air; he has made several public experiments, and has risen to the height of 54 feet, flying in various du - et-lions, as the foreign papers say, - with'the celerity of a bird. A subscription trs been opened at Vienna to enable hitn to prosecute his discoveries. The machine is formed of two para-, chutes of taffeta, which may be folded up or extend ed at pleasute; and the person who moves them lio placqd in the centre.- - An ingenious German (M. liozzlNE) has an nounced in several journals, the invention of a ma chine, intended to throw light into the interior of the animal body. It is composed of a recipient con 'wining the light; of tubes which dired its ray to the cavities which it is wished to enlighten ; and reflecting tubes, which transmit the lutninous rays to the eye of the observer, The Committee for inspecting the Accounts of old covc..nt.Garden Theatre employed the whole of Sa turday in examining the proper vouchers for the ad ditional inctunbrances on the new 4 heatte.,--Wo understand that their sitting was adjourned to thitA morning. The ><irst meeting of the Committee took place on Friday morning,' not, as was generally re.r ported, on ThorSday. - -- Whatever may he the dccision of the Committee who have so kindly undertaken the investigation of the concerns of Covent-Garden Theatre, the Public . most feel a high sense of gratitude towards thosP Gentlemen for thus devoting a considerable part of their valuable time to such a subjed. They are exempt from al ‘ l interest in. the question,' and qin have nothiaz in view but ..justice, truth, and a MI eat'ci for putklic tranquikty. I c he oely re c ur there'' tkiere' tore, that the Pubhc can rzlalse to this hi g h c haraci tern who have acted with so much kindness ape liberality,_ and from w hose abilities, knowledge, dill gence, and integrity, the most honourable result may be confidently tit - reefed, is a iespeCt(ol and etl - ! tire acquiescence in their determination. Lieutenant BARTON, of the 12th Light Dsagoon s o died at Deal last Wednesday :—His premature death \Vas occasioned by eating a quantity of nuts on 11 1 ; 1 preceding Saturday, on which day he came of age: He felt the etfeai the next morning, and medic" aiistatice w immediately called in; every possible means were tried by. the facUlty, bqt unfoounately without etfea. The Bishop of Et.PHIN, brother to Lord ELLEN' BOROUGH, is so ill at . his Palace in treland, that his Physicians despair of his recovery ; his Lordship has for many years been of a dropsical habit, the disor der which is daily e4Telled to terminate his ex enee. some docks are about to be constructed. between Shoreham and Lancing, which will probably draill the low lands in that neighbourhood. The Lords of the Admiralty have rewarded the •. Ramsgate boatmen with 4o guineas, for their service s in saving a boat's crew of the Diana frigate. A Gentleman of Kennington e has undertaken, fo a wager o a t r . & of D 7, ~to 17,,t0tv ia r i. ui es l ins enga ged ed a 14 h ours. The E worsted mill near Canterbury, for the purpose of introducing a new manufaCtory. From an address circulated by his Lordship, it appears that he has fanned the kw& able design of enabling the county of Kent, by work ing up its own wool, to rival in the worsted hosiery trade the counties of Leicester, Nottingham, part o f Warwick, and Derby, to which that branch Of trade has hitherto been confined. A sale of Merino sheep took place in the month of June st Ranibouillet, France, when 69 ram; and 84 ewes were disposed of—the former at the average price of 705 traucs, and the latter of 433, which was considerably higher than what they brought list year. The amount of the sheep sold was 80,470 francs, and the produce of the wool (i 857, makings total 0f_87,327 francs. BoaoLAttYT—Yesterday morning, between four and five 'o'clock, the Antelope public-house, in White-Hart-yard, Drury-lane, was entered by two men through a .back window. Tney were in the parlour packing up what property they could, when a woman came in upon them, and seized one by the collat; the other made his escape, leaving an 'roil, crow behind. Persons coming to th e as,istance o f the heroine, the tellow was properly secured. Tire quanity of rain which tell in the last month was equal to tour inches in depth, a quantity, per.. haps, unprecedented at he like season in the meteorn logical annals of this country. The depth of rain in the two preceding months was likewise unusually greats, having exceeded seven inches. • 1: : :)ur Prizes of 20,0001. will fall .to One Number in the present State Lottery. This may seem 4 0 ' possible to those who have not attended to the Scheme : but such is the tact--the purchaser of the your Tickets of any one Number may, in an initant, find himselfa gainer of 80,0001. he wtho has 'Three Tickets of one Number may get 60,0001. and so oil in proportion. There are'on}v 5000 Numbe and. the whole will be drawl in One Day, tlag 20tt: this month.